Chris Milligan joins Richard on this episode of Home: On to discuss the most interesting news from the recent CEDIA Expo. Nest opens up its thermostat to developers and introduces a new product, Homeseer launches an inexpensive Z-Wave controller, and Prima Cinema finally brings day-and-date releases to the very wealthy.
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- Nest Developer Program
- Nest Re-invents the Smoke Detector
- Dish Hopper DVRs Open up to Home Automation Control
- B&O Bringing Certified Wireless 7.1 Speakers to Market
- Savant Introduces “Big Boy Automation” Package
- HomeSeer HomeTroller Zee Home Automation Controller
- Prima Cinema Brings New Releases to Home Theaters
- TiVo Roamio Wins CE Pro “Best for CEDIA” Award
- Philips Friends of Hue available at Apple Stores
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You mention on the podcast that the Dish Hopper is the first DVR to utilize HDMI-CEC. I have the AT&T U-Verse Total Home DVR connected to a Sony NSZ-GS7 Google TV that is then connected to my Panasonic ST50. I think that the Google TV is controlling the DVR (channel changing, menus, DVR controls, etc) via HDMI-CEC. Am I wrong about that? I don’t think it is IR control.
Hey, we have the same TV! 🙂 In the article we covered in our show notes, Engadget was reporting they believed Dish will be the first to implement CEC on a DVR. Is there any way of testing your Google TV setup by breaking any possible IR bleed to your AT&T settop box? I can find no documentation suggesting that the Total Home DVR does support CEC, and it would be interesting to find out if that’s in there but hasn’t been widely communicated.
I don’t ever remember hearing about any of the Google TV boxes using CEC for channel changing, etc. It almost has to be via IR blasting.